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2 days agoA Radical Post-Impressionist Movement Returns to Paris
The Nabis group revolutionized art in the late 19th century, establishing a foundation for 20th-century Modern art through abstraction and symbolism.
Guy Cogeval, who was director of Paris's Musée d'Orsay from 2008 to 2017, died on November 13 at the age of 70. His death, after a long illness, was reported by on November 17. An iconoclastic, and at times controversial, figure in the museum world, Cogeval was an impassioned scholar of 19th-century art whose specialty was the Nabis, a group of French Post-Impressionist painters active in the late 1800s.